Tuomas Holopainen
Birthday: 1976-12-25 Place of Birth: Kitee, Finland
Synopsis
Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, screenwriter and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side projects are the gothic metal band For My Pain... and the band of Timo Rautiainen. Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including recent collaboration with Nightwish bass player, and male vocalist Marco Hietala on "While Your Lips Are Still Red", for the Finnish film Lieksa! in 2007. He also co-wrote Nightwish's own film, Imaginaerum, released in November 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tuomas Holopainen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Nightwish: Please Learn the Setlist in 48 Hours
An intimate, two-hour documentary of Nightwish’s innermost-workings – included in their upcoming Showtime, Storytime DVD – is a story about what happens when persistence and desire pushes towards dreams. Directed by Ville Lipiäinen (30 Seconds To Mars, HIM) and shot with seventeen cameras at the Wacken Open Air Festival in front of 85,000 fans, the 110-minute live performance by Finland’s most beloved rockers Nightwish was the first of three final shows of the band’s 2013 “Imaginaerum World Tour” which consisted of 104 concerts in 34 countries and a total audience of over 1.5 million fans around the globe.
Nightwish: Making of Imaginaerum
Says the band: "Get your copy and see how one of the most ambitious projects in rock history was made! This spectacular hour and a half long Making of Imaginaerum documentary gives you an inside look to the recordings of the album and the movie. Documentary includes loads of never before seen Nightwish footage! Full documentary is only available on Imaginaerum Tour Edition release!"
Imaginaerum
Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from his adult life. His music, friends, all his past including the memory of his daughter are a blur in his fragile mind. All he has left is the imagination of a ten year old boy. As he drifts away into coma, it seems impossible to get back what he has lost. Or is it?
Nightwish: Live in Sydney
1) Crimson Tide (Hans Zimmer song)
2) Storytime 3) Dark Chest of Wonders 4) Wish I Had an Angel 5) Amaranth 6) Scaretale 7) Slow, Love, Slow 8) I Want My Tears Back (with Troy Donockley)
9) Nemo (with Troy Donockley)
10) Last of the Wilds (with Troy Donockley)
11) Planet Hell 12) Ever Dream 13) Over the Hills and Far Away (Gary Moore cover) (with Troy Donockley)
14) Ghost Love Score 15) Song of Myself 16) Last Ride of the Day 17) Imaginaerum
Nightwish: Live at Wacken 2008
1) Intro (Resurrection) [00:05] 2) Bye Bye Beautiful [03:25] 3) Dark Chest of Wonders [07:40] 4) Whoever Brings the Night [13:10] 5) The Siren [18:00] 6) Amaranth [22:50] 7) Sacrament of Wilderness [27:15] 8) The Poet And the Pendulum [32:30] 9) Ever Dream [46:35] 10) While Your Lips Are Still Red [52:50] 11) Wishmaster [57:15] 12) Sahara [62:15] 13) Nemo [68:35] 14) Wish I Had an Angel [75:45]
Nightwish: End of an Era
End of an Era is a BluRay, DVD and double CD from the Finnish symphonic metal Nightwish. Recorded at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland on October 21st. 2005, the final concert of a long worldwide tour for their album Once. During the concert the band was joined on-stage by John Two-Hawks, who performed "Stone People" from his album Honor as an introduction to "Creek Mary's Blood", which featured his voice and cedar flutes. End of an Era is the final Nightwish production to feature Tarja Turunen. She and the rest of the band parted mere hours after this concert. Set-List: 1. Dark Chest of Wonders / 2. Planet Hell / 3. Ever Dream / 4. The Kinslayer / 5. The Phantom of the Opera / 6. The Siren / 7. Sleeping Sun / 8. High Hopes / 9. Bless the Child / 10. Wishmaster / 11. Slaying the Dreamer / 12. Kuolema tekee taiteilijan /13. Nemo / 14. Ghost Love Score / 15. Stone People / 16. Creek Mary's Blood / 17. Over the Hills and Far Away / 18. Wish I Had an Angel.
Nightwish: Ballads of the Eclipse
Three Versions of the song Sleeping Sun.
Nightwish: Highest Hopes
Including three studio videos and a further four full live songs filmed live at the Summer Breeze Festival in Germany in 2002 . All versions feature a new (2005) recording of the song "Sleeping Sun" and a live version of Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" from which this compilation takes its name.
Nightwish: Bless The Child
Over The Hills And Far Away (Videoclip), Bless The Child (Videoclip), Interview and Promotion Trailer
Nightwish: From Wishes to Eternity - Live
Live concert by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was recorded in Tampere, Finland on 29 December 2000. Setlist: 1. The Kinslayer / 2. She Is My Sin / 3. Deep Silent Complete / 4. The Pharaoh Sails to Orion / 5. Come Cover Me / 6. Wanderlust / 7. Instrumental (Crimson Tide/Deep Blue Sea) / 8. Swanheart / 9. Elvenpath / 10. FantasMic (Part 3) / 11. Dead Boy's Poem / 12. Sacrament of Wilderness / 13. Walking in the Air / 14. Beauty & the Beast / 15. Wishmaster.
